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Crystal Broch Colombini

@crystalbc.bsky.social

Rhetoric & writing scholar, WPA in NYC, here for all things #teamrhetoric

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Rhetoricity: No End to the Struggle: An Interview with Derek G. Handley This episode features an interview with , author of the book . Dr. Handley is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is also affiliated faculty i...

New episode of the Rhetoricity podcast featuring Dr. Derek G. Handley! We talk about his recent book Struggle for the City, which documents how Black communities organized to resist urban renewal in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and St. Paul. rhetoricity.libsyn.com/no-end-to-th...

10.10.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anechdoche Addition, Sonder Subtraction, and Exulansis Exponentialization too, probably.

09.01.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣🀣🀣

08.01.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next century, please πŸ™πŸ»

08.01.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

14/20

08.01.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 12

Really wish I could unwatch that bridge collapse video. Don’t click. πŸ’”

26.03.2024 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This!

26.03.2024 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely French fries and grilled cheese are needed to celebrate!

15.12.2023 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are regular Friday December 15ths & then there are β€œyour application for faculty development leave has been approved” Friday December 15ths. First sabbatical in 12 (endlessly challenging) years since the PhD. I have no words.

15.12.2023 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly fantastic NCAβ€” so grateful to have been program planner for ECS this year & to everyone who pitched, presented, and engaged with ECS panels!

19.11.2023 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This sounds fantastic!

23.10.2023 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I poached too! πŸ˜‡

20.10.2023 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The REAL β€œDark Academic” Influencer! Target should prob pay you to consult. πŸ€”

19.10.2023 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed some of this is a strettttttch. Also really a β€œdark academia” line could probably better reflect our real nihilism and malaise. Flasks designed to look like computer cables. Jewelry with hidden pill compartments for Prozac and Xanax. Etc.

19.10.2023 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I hadn’t just accidentally ordered mmm… let’s say *several* leather skirts from elsewhere, before I realize how well Target was intuiting my dark, dark academic heart, I would be too!

19.10.2023 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not going to lie, I am legit fixing to acquire that little electric kettle.

19.10.2023 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dark Academia is wistfully in session. Delve into the high arts this fall. Expand your mindβ€”and your wardrobeβ€”with brooding reads, potent brews and scholarly threads to fully embrace this classic trend.

In which Target not only vibe checks us, my fellow dark academics, but also makes us β€œwistfully” relevant. Now *that* is service.

19.10.2023 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

☠️☠️☠️

15.10.2023 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I loved it

14.10.2023 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So lucky to be at the Manhattan screening of this unbelievably beautiful film tonight. ❀️❀️❀️

14.10.2023 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, more wing is in no way superior to less wing. Just ask chicken wing connoisseurs. Or body builders. Or long sleeves.

14.10.2023 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In which my 6ft+ wingspan is once again inexplicable. 🀣

14.10.2023 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In which my 6ft + wingspan is explained.

14.10.2023 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You take those lights *out*, DL.

14.10.2023 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWe Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other” The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.

Thus is an extraordinary piece of writing.

"We cannot cross until we carry each other,
all of us refugees, all of us prophets.
No more taking turns on history’s wheel,
trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."

12.10.2023 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

#facts

13.10.2023 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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